How to deal with appointments in MLO?

[André Fleury Sguerra Silva]

Hi there,


         At first I would congratulate MLO development team for this great and beuatiful job!

         I am trying to figure out which is the best way to input an appointment task.

         The way I imagine was most intuitive is that one in which the starting date and time os this task is the same as the appointments, but, in this case, the task becames inactive and don´t show up in the To-Do's until you´re late, or totally miss it.

          If I input only its due-date and the duration, it would be shown in the to-do´s, but I would make an incorrect input, because the duration stands for the period of time between start and due date-time.

          So I ask, what´s the way MLO has idealized for users to deal with appointment tasks input?

          Is there an alarm for each task when its status changes?
         

Thanks for all,

André

[Tolqua]

Hi André.

I'm new to MLO myself, but I think reminders can be set completely independently of the start and due dates/times even if it's set to one of these by default.  There's also a whole raft of settings to configure how the reminder behaves and how it alerts you.

Tolqua.

[Tolqua]

Hi André.

 

I've just posted another topic related to appointment tasks you may be interested in.

 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mylifeorganized/lyWxS3og4cU

 

Tolqua.

On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 15:40:27 UTC+1, André Fleury Sguerra Silva wrote:

[Stéph]

Hello André,

I guess it depends what your definition of an "appointment-task" is.  If the task is to prepare something for an appointment, then the due date is before the appointment starts and the start date needs to be some time before that (generally, I'd set start to the earliest time it's possible to start the task).  If the task is to do something while you're at an appointment, then it makes sense to have the start and end times to match the appointment.

For the appointment itself, I'd create a calendar item in Outlook or my iPhone Exchange calendar. If there was something I needed to remember to discuss or do at the appointment, I'd put something about it in the note for the appointment.

Hope that helps,

Stéph

On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 15:40:27 UTC+1, André Fleury Sguerra Silva wrote: